Dean and Vincent--who you are talking about here, and who was the prior one to comment--when you consider the sources you can understand the lack of common sense with question or comments.

I sure hope I don't end up in "mosquito heaven"

One is writing poetry and another wonders if mosquitos dream.

Fish, I, for one, would love to provide for that man with no legs. He probably lost them defending my freedom. But it has become impossible, nowadays. Just the other day someone wrote in asking if there was a gov't program that would allow her to spay her cat.

In this topsy-turvy world, the only absolute guarantee of privacy is to have an abortion, and those people most likely to be obese are the poor.

What have we become?

As is nearly always the case, the less-reflective among us miss A. Martin's point. "Every living thing is a wonder of atomic engineering. Some organisms that we think of as primitive enjoy a level of cellular organization and sophistication that makes our own look carelessly pedestrian. Dis-assemble the cells of a sponge by passing them through a sieve, then dump them into a solution, and they will find their way back together and build themselves into a sponge again. You can do this over and over and they will doggedly reassemble because, like all of us and every other living thing, they have one overwhelming impulse: to continue to be." But .... but.... the Bible teaches .......

she is the sponge, aka a democrat!

And don't miss the fact that in her legislative district there have been several suicides of gay teens who had been bullied in school. And her husband's (he of the online doctoral degree controversy) clinic would have just cured them if they had stopped by. We need a more positive role model to represent Minnesota.

One wrote a book, "Dreams of My Father", oh wait, that was a different bloodsucker, wasn't it.

An "Entitlement???"
What is wrong here?
Remember, not only did you contribute to Social Security but your employer did too. It totaled 15% of your income before taxes. If you averaged only 30K over your working life, that’s close to $220,500. If you calculate the future value of $4,500 per year (yours & your employer’s contribution) at a simple 5% (less than what the govt. pays on the money that it borrows), after 49 years of working (me) you'd have $892,919.98. If you took out only 3% per year, you receive $26,787.60 per year and it would last better than 30 years, and that’s with no interest paid on that final amount on deposit! If you bought an annuity and it paid 4% per year, you'd have a lifetime income of $2,976.40 per month. The folks in Washington have pulled off a bigger Ponzi scheme than Bernie Madoff ever had.

Surely you jest! Just because they borrowed the money, doesn't make my benefits some kind of charity or handout!! Congressional benefits, aka. free health care, outrageous retirement packages, 67 paid holidays, three weeks paid vacation, unlimited paid sick days, now that's welfare, and they have the nerve to call my retirement entitlements !!!!!!.....

Emergency Rooms for their general health care -At just one hospital the cost to tax payers totaled over 25 million a year!!!
Someone please tell me what is wrong with all the people that run this country!!!!!! We're "broke" & can't help our own Seniors, Veterans, Orphans, Homeless etc.,????? In the last months we have provided aid to Haiti, Chile, and Turkey. And now Pakistan home of bin Laden. Literally, BILLIONS of DOLLARS!!!

Our retired seniors living on a 'fixed income' receive no aid nor do they get any breaks while our government and religious organizations pour Hundreds of Billions of $$$$$$'s and Tons of Food to Foreign Countries!

They call Social Security and Medicare an entitlement even though most of us have been paying for it all our working lives and now when its time for us to collect, the government is running out of money. Why did the government borrow from it in the first place? We have hundreds of adoptable children who are shoved aside to make room for the adoption of foreign orphans.

AMERICA: a country where we have homeless without shelter, children going to bed hungry, elderly going without 'needed' meds, and mentally ill without treatment -etc,etc.
YET.................They have a 'Benefit' for the people of Haiti on 12 TV stations, ships and planes lining up with food, water, tents clothes, bedding, doctors and medical supplies. Imagine if the *GOVERNMENT* gave 'US' the same support they give to other countries.

Ah for the good hamburgrer in what ever place that is.

Fishhead, did you actually see this, or were you watching the opening scene (Eddie Murphy) from Trading Places. The story sounds hauntingly familiar...

*chuckle*